Hmm, I hope someone here has a clue:I usually download archive files into a certain directory. Now it is quite much work to unpack them manually and delete the archive files. What would be the easiest way to automate this?

I never did it, but I would like to know if there exists such an application. I see that I was not precise enough: I look for something that actually watches folders (checks them in certain intervals) and extracts any new archives.

Tuxman, in that list of 5 programs, it looks to me like #1 (Unpacker) will do what you are asking. What doesn't it do?

Another one that I know of is called PAR Buddy. However, it focuses more on PAR funcionality than archives. Meaning, it does watch folders and extract the archives, and deletes the archive files. However, if the archive doesn't have PAR files, i don't think it extracts. I also don't think it works with zip files.

I'm also interested in this, now that you mention it. PAR Buddy is good for me, but I'd like one that does the same thing but also works with other archive formats (other than RAR) and without PAR files.

It will look in multiple folders for different files and can execute several actions (copy,move,delete, compress etc) all based on rule sets that you yourself can set up. It does this on configurable time-intervals and can even keep a log of all the actions that are performed.

Although this may not be what you want, it certainly looks interesting to me.

Hmm, I hope someone here has a clue:I usually download archive files into a certain directory. Now it is quite much work to unpack them manually and delete the archive files. What would be the easiest way to automate this?

I was asked by a client a year ago to make a SERVICE that watcha directory for zip files and opens themDose that help ?If it is interesting to any one i mite do a product out of that.(I have a variant of the program that is not a SERVICE)

I was asked by a client a year ago to make a SERVICE that watcha directory for zip files and opens themDose that help ?If it is interesting to any one i mite do a product out of that.(I have a variant of the program that is not a SERVICE)

Well, this sounds interesting! If you are willing to add features and stuff to it, I think it could do everything we're asking for here. Watch directories, automatically extract files (zip, rar, multiple formats), options to tell the program what to do with the files once extracted, etc.

Great!I would love to have an option that asks me - upon a file download/creation - as to where (a different folder) to move the file to.I am one of those gs - who do not move files to relevant folders soon after creation/download resulting in the "documents folder" piling up 100s of files slowing down things. Presence of File search softwares like Locate32 and X1 does not help in getting disciplined